Бурак А. Л., Берди М., Елистратов В. С. Дополнение к русско-английским словарям. – М.: ООО «Издательство Астрель»: «Издательство АСТ», 2003. – 96 с.

A work of fiction (the main points of the lecture):
What assertions about style can be used to fiction and non-fiction? What makes it different from other linguistic texts? How can it be analyzed? What generalizing terms about the nature of style do you know?

Lecture 2: The tasks of stylistics
Why do the writers know more about the use of words than ordinary humans? What makes a short poem more accessible to linguistic analysis? What constitutes style? (What comprises the author’s idiosyncrasy?) Why do we study style? Where does linguistics come in? Why can’t stylistics provide a hard-and-fast technology of analysis? What is Spitzer’s "philological circle”?

The most popular definitions of stylistics
Roman Jakobson:
"What is the empirical linguistic criterion of the poetic function? In particular, what is the indispensable feature inherent in any piece of poetry? To answer this question we must recall the two basic modes of arrangement used in verbal behavior, selection and combination. …The selection is produced on the base of equivalence, similarity and dissimilarity, synonymity and antonymity, while the combination, the build up of the sequence, is based on contiguity. The poetic function projects the principle of equivalence from the axis of selection into the axis of combination. Equivalence is promoted to the constitutive device of the sequence.”
The sentence underlined is the rallying cry for post-Bally structural stylistics.
Michael Riffatterre: 
Stylistics "studies those features of linguistic utterance that are utilized to impose the encoder’s way of thinking on the decoder.”  
Examples
Task: Attribute these utterances to C. Doyle, O. Wilde, W.S. Maugham, O. Henry, M. Twain, A. Tennyson

Классификация стилистических приёмов И. Р. Гальперина (тезисы лекции)

Dirty English

1. Why can’t people communicate in standard English?
2. Why do the linguists produce vocabularies of non-standard English?
3. What do you know about the problem of sifting through words?
4. Why are words of dirty English important in communication?
5. Can you give any examples of humorous English?
6. What is the strategy of enlarging one’s vocabulary for non-native speakers?
7. How are you planning your self-improvement scheme?